This essay diagnoses institutional gatekeeping in research, suggesting reforms for open inquiry and scientific truth.
Publicly funded scientific research carries a fiduciary duty to pursue objective truth rather than preserve paradigm consensus. Yet modern theoretical physics and philosophy of science increasingly suffer from institutional gatekeeping—where foundational challenges to dominant frameworks (such as the 4D block universe) are filtered out as "programmatic" or blocked at the repository level. Drawing on Chomsky, Benda, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, this essay diagnoses the modern drift into scientific mysticism and calls for a structural reformation of scholarly publication and open inquiry.
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